On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 07:53:24 +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 02.09.2010, 19:08 +0200 schrieb Guido Günther: > > Neither Conflicts+Replaces nor Conflicts+Breaks lets apt-get figure out > > the right thing while aptitude handles all well. Even adding a > > Provides: hal-cups-utils doesn't work. > > Erm, I meant Breaks+Replaces, not Conflicts+Breaks! Please try again. > > However, maybe the *versioned* Conflicts/Breaks/Replaces is the culprit > here, because it pretends to open up another possible way for apt to > solve this situation by upgrading h-c-u. But the truth is, there is no > such version of h-c-u available and even if it was, the package is to be > completely removed anyway. > > However, I think ubuntu introduced a dummy hal-cups-utils package that > depends on s-c-p-udev to ease the transition. > So I went and asked the apt people. The problem seems to be that because python-cupsutils has reverse dependencies its removal gets a bad score. Would it be possible to keep python-cupsutils as a dummy transitional package depending on python-cupshelpers? Cheers, Julien
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